This week I’ve been taking up space in various coffee shops on various coffee shops’ wifi connections to make up for a temporary lapse in internet service at home. The first real snow fall of the year — that I’ve noticed — is happening as I’m writing this and it’s a good reminder that we never do escape winter. We never escape anything that operates in a cycle, and most things operate in a cycle.

Sundays are a good time to sit down and think. I say this not because they hold and particular significance to me, but as a big proponent of sitting down and thinking I think any day is a good time to sit down and think. So why not start now? If you need something to think about, I’ve got a poem for you below. It’s definitely warm drink season. Hot chocolate is in the cards for me as I get home. I resumed drinking coffee earlier this week after a eight months away from our favourite drug. This week’s reflections are somewhat prompted by that.

I’d like to try to make myself more available for people to chat with, so if you’ve been reading what I’ve been writing these last two months, I’d love to hear what you think. If you feel like debating over what I’ve written, or need someone to chat with, consider leaving a comment or e-mailing me at theodore@theodorefox.com

AUTODIDACT

“People with ADD are always reacting. Even when they look calm and sedate, they are usually churning inside, taking this piece of data and moving it there, pushing this thought through their emotional network, putting that idea on the fire to burn, exploding or subsiding, but always in motion. Such hyperractivity enhances creativity because it increases the number of collisions in the brain. Each collision has the potential to emit new light, new matter, as when subatomic particles collide.”